I have a RAID5 array consisting of 3 identical 2TB drives. Suddenly GRUB wouldn't boot anymore and gave the error out of disk.
Eventually booted a livecd and ran some mdadm commands:
mdadm --examine ...

MS recovery just formatted my 1TB Backup disk to NTFS which was ext4 before.
It was an MBR disk before but now it's a GPT one.
Now I'm on SystemResqueCD and can check with the testdisk.
What is the ...

To keep the story short, i am taking the easy way out and now trying to mount a partition to recover a few text documents.
I tried to 'sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sda4 /mnt' but received this error
sudo ...

I have heard if you don't make partitins in linux it is so hard to recovery your data. And if you make some partitions it would be easy to recovery.
for example if you make /par1 /part2 /part3 it is ...

Yesterday I've had the bad idea to try to follow this tutorial :
http://fds-team.de/cms/articles/2013-12/use-a-real-windows-7-partition-in-virtualbox-kvm-vmware-player-u.html
these are the commands ...

I had haproxy configured in /var/tmp directory by compiling, i did not had any backup after few months its still running but my /var/tmp/ is having no haproxy anymore. Can anyone please recover it i ...

I had Linux mint installed in my computer in one partition and had another partition for Data.
I just installed Ubuntu Kylin 14.04 and during the installation there was an option like "install Ubuntu ...

While accessing a drive with high error rates (as, for example, here for opensuse) in FreeBSD, the system eventually disconnects the drive and it disappears from /dev. This makes it impossible to run ...

I accidentally deleted all the content of the dokuwiki directory and want to restore it not with a Linux (Debian) command. In the directory of dokuwiki far as i know mainly .txt files are located. How ...

I would like to run a Linux installation on my Mac from a pen drive in order to create an emergency backup of my most important files.
I do not know whether my hard drive is physically broken or just ...

Has anyone had any luck with recovering a subdirectory with data? We're talking about around 100MB and a specific folder name and location. As I said in a previous post, I had a data folder in MySQL ...

I'm new to BTRFS and I'm trying to understand why BTRFS use CRC32c while HDD already have sector level data integrity ECC. Is it because BTRFS don't relay on media to have data integrity protection?
...

Well one of my colleague installed fresh OS Redhat 6 on already in use test server. Now we got in trouble and needed to recover whole partition which is already formatted during new installation.
Is ...

When I was installing Mint Debian edition unlike the classic edition, the installation automatically formated my home partition when I did not specify to format.
So the formatting previously was ext4 ...

I installed ubuntu 14.04 by replacing win 8.1 and then all my partions are gone.I thought it would replace the sytem files in C only but all my partions are deleted.So i want to know if there is any ...

I wanted to resize my LVM, followed some tutorial on the net and the system totally crashed (I got some boot error with UUID not found). I ran a LiveCD and tried to at least recover some files but I ...

I accidentally deleted the dir, /path/to/dir, and all its contents from an application.
However, I still have a terminal window open, still cd-ed in /path/to/dir!
Q: Is there any way to recursively ...

I have a one Terabyte hard disk drive (USB3) that suddenly will not mount. My local computer expert (Windows only) had a look at it with his software and said that it is not a hardware problem.
What ...

So a friend of mine has a mac hard drive that she desparately needs the data off of. It will not boot in the macbook. And cannot be mounted in windows. I can make a copy with Safecopy, however when I ...

Somehow I managed to really mess up my debian installation and I will have to reinstall it. However I have some data on the partition that I really want to save. Is there any way to access the data on ...